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It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and this evening on Soul Serenade host Tom Shaker will pay special tribute. Tom's Monday evening of soul music (7-11pm) has become a listener favorite. Enjoy Aretha, James Brown and many more legendary artists as we reflect on the life and times of Dr. King. Details are below. A couple of other familiar names are featured this week on WICN. Robert Redford is Judy Carmichael' special guest tomorrow at 6pm on Jazz Inspired. And the music of Charles Mingus lives on with the Mingus Big Band, featured on JazzSet Friday at 6pm. We've got you covered! |
| | | Although best known for his more-than-20-year association with Emil Haddad, pianist Dick Odgren has had a rich and varied career apart from the work of that storied duo. He grew up in Auburn, where he received his initial piano instruction from his uncle, Rollie Provost. After graduating from Auburn High School, he signed with the United States Navy Band, completing his tour in 1971. He then enrolled t the Berklee College of Music, graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in music composition. Also in the '70s, Odgren was the co-  | | Jazz Pianist Dick Odgren |
leader- and founder of Out at Home, featuring saxophonist and brother Jim Odgren and guitarist Jim Kelly. In the 1980s, he performed with the fusion band Ictus and in 1982, began his longtime collaboration with Haddad. Throughout the '80s, Odgren also performed and recorded with trumpeter Mike Metheny. |
Programming of Note: Soul Serenade: MLK Monday, January 21, 7pm Join host Tom Shaker and celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. on tonight's show. Dr. King's message had quite a soundtrack, featuring artists like Aretha Franklin, James Brown, the Impressions and Sam Cook to name just a few. It all starts at 7pm! Jazz Inspired: Robert Redford Tuesday, January 22, 6PM Robert Redford talks about designing his life and work at Sundance around a jazz model. Read More... Song Travels with Michael Feinstein: Karadaglić Wednesday, January 23, 6PM Classical guitarist Milos Karadaglić began performing as his country, the former Yugoslavia, was being ripped apart by war. He entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, and his hard work is paying off -a 2012 solo concert at Royal Albert Hall was widely praised! Karadaglić brings his love of Latin music to Song Travels with pieces by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla. Read More... Jazz Set: Mingus Friday, January 25, 6PM Thanks to Let My Children Hear Music, the foundation that keeps Mingus' compositions alive, there's a small orchestra that regularly performs his music, voiced colorfully for French horn, flute, clarinet, bassoon, brass and reeds. Boris Kozlov plays the composer's actual double bass with a lion's head carved in the scroll, and Gunther Schuller, Mingus's longtime friend, conducts new arrangements. Read More... Colors of Jazz: "Quiet Conversations - A Duet" Joan Watson-Jones & Frank Wilkins Saturday, January 26, 4pm  New England based jazz vocalist Joan Watson-Jones has teamed up with pianist Frank Wilkins to bring their third release, " Quiet Conversations - A Duet." The pair are supporters of the local jazz scene in there own right, hosting jam sessions and performing together on a regular basis. On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 they celebrate the CD in concert at Scullers Jazz Club. Catch Colors of Jazz on Saturday when the duet joins Bonnie Johnson to talk about their work and the Big Party. Inquiry: The Kaufmans & Florence Williams Sunday, January 27, 9PM "Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England" covers constellations to the night sky, a basic guide to the shells and other invertebrates found along our coastline, and even the geology of New England. Authors Kimberly Kaufman, Executive Director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory in Ohio and contributing Editor to Birds and Blooms magazine and Kenn Kaufman, nationally known natural historian, author, and originator of the Kaufman Field Guide Series join Mark at 9pm. Can talking a long hike in the forest actually lower our blood pressure, improve our cognition and creativity and relieve anxiety and depression? Amazingly, scientists from around the globe are discovering that spending time in nature can do wonders for us. Tune in tonight at 9:30pm and learn about some of this ground-breaking research with writer and journalist Florence Williams discussing an article in Outside Magazine on-line titled "The nature cure: Take Two hours of a Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning." Read More... Business Beat: Ryan Leary of Running Start
Sunday, January 27, 10 PM Running Start is a co-working space and start-up incubator in Worcester. The for-profit business provides entrepreneurs with a professional, collaborative, working environment, coupled with an array of programs geared toward launching and growing new ventures. My guest, Ryan Leary, is a partner of and project director for Running Start. He has a bachelor of science in entrepreneurship and a master of global business management from Johnson & Wales University. |
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| Artist of the Month PHIL WOODS 
One of the true masters of the bop vocabulary, Phil Woods has had his own sound since the mid-'50s and stuck to his musical guns throughout a remarkably productive career. There has never been a doubt that he is one of the top alto saxophonists alive. His first alto was left to him by an uncle, and he started playing seriously when he was 12. He gigged and studied locally until 1948, when he moved to New York. He has mostly headed his own groups since 1955, including co-leadership of a combo with fellow altoist Gene Quill in the '50s and popped up in a variety of settings in the 1960s -- on Benny Carter's classic Further Definitions record, touring Europe with the short-lived Thelonious Monk Nonet, and appearing on studio dates like the soundtracks to "The Hustler" and "Blow Up." In 1973, Woods formed a quintet with pianist Mike Melillo, bassist Steve Gilmore, drummer Bill Goodwin, and guitarist Harry Leahey that had much greater success. Their recording Live at the Showboat officially launched the band, which today, after a few personnel changes, still tours the world. He is active as a bandleader, composer, arranger and soloist worldwide, and at his home in Delaware Water Gap where he has lived since 1976. | | |
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